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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 6 of 12

Story Order

First, next and last

What your child practices

Putting events in order, and listening to short stories to tell what happened at the beginning, middle and end.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 0.2.6.2; 0.1.4.3 · putting the beginning, middle and end of a story in order, and naming its characters and setting

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Stories happen in order: first, next, last.
  2. Ask: what happens first?
  3. Then what? How does it end?

Example: Put in order: a chick, an egg, it hatches. First there is an egg. Next, it hatches. Last, a little chick. Answer: An egg → It hatches → A little chick

Story Order in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 6 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Sight Words and before Book Detectives.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Tap the pictures in order: first, next, last.

    • 🐥A little chick
    • 🥚An egg
    • 🐣It hatches

  2. Question 2

    What happened at the end?

    Ana's dog jumped in the mud.

    Ana gave him a bath.

    Now he is clean and happy!

    • 🛁He had a bath
    • 🐶He is clean and happy
    • 🐾The dog got muddy

  3. Question 3

    What happened at the end?

    Leo lost his ball.

    He looked under his bed.

    He found it in the garden!

    • 😟Leo lost his ball
    • ⚽He found the ball
    • 🛏️He looked under the bed

  4. Question 4

    Tap the pictures in order: first, next, last.

    • 🥣Eat breakfast
    • ⏰Wake up
    • 🎒Go to school

  5. Question 5

    What happened in the middle?

    Dark clouds filled the sky.

    Rain fell on Amir's umbrella.

    Then a rainbow came out!

    • ☔Rain fell
    • 🌈A rainbow came out
    • ☁️Clouds filled the sky

  6. Question 6

    Tap the pictures in order: first, next, last.

    • 😴Go to sleep
    • 📖Read a story
    • 🛁Take a bath

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